Thomas Hardy, The Poetry Of: "Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."

By Thomas Hardy

The Poetry Of Thomas Hardy – An Introduction. Many giants of Literature originate from the shores of these emerald isles; Shakespeare, Dickens, Chaucer, The Brontes and Austen to which most people would willingly add the name Thomas Hardy. Far From The Madding Crowd, Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, The Mayor Of Casterbridge are but three of his literary masterpieces. But let us go further and add to his canon his Poems. Hardy himself thought he was a poet who wrote novels purely for the money. Indeed his poems were not published until he was in his fifties after his major novels were published and his reputation set. Today his poetry is more rightly regarded in its own right. Many of these poems are also available as an audiobook read for you by James Taylor, Gideon Wagner, Richard Mitchley, Tim Graham and Ghizela Rowe and available at iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Copyright Group
• Release date: Sep 24, 2013
• ISBN: 9781780005010

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) gave up a career in architecture to devote himself to writing. He is now regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English literature. His best-remembered works, all set in the fictional county of Wessex, are Jude the Obscure, Tess of the D’Urbervilles, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Return of the Native, and Far from the Madding Crowd. 

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Thomas Hardy, A Poet In Verse 

Poetry is a fascinating use of language.  With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries.  In this series we look at poets who at first thought summon other crafts to mind.  

Many giants of Literature originate from the shores of these emerald isles;  Shakespeare, Dickens, Chaucer, The Brontes and Austen to which most people would willingly add the name Thomas Hardy.   ‘Far From The Madding Crowd’,’ Tess Of The D’Urbervilles’, ‘The Mayor Of Casterbridge’ are but three of his literary masterpieces.  But let us go further and add to his canon his Poems.  Hardy himself thought he was a poet who wrote novels purely for the money.  Indeed his poems were not published until he was in his fifties after his major novels were published and his reputation set.   Today his poetry is more rightly regarded in its own right.

Many of the poems are also available as an audiobook from our sister company Portable Poetry.  Many samples are at our youtube channel   http://www.youtube.com/user/PortablePoetry?feature=mhee   The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.  Among the readers are James Taylor, Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe

Index Of Poems

A Meeting With Despair

The Voice

A Thunderstorm In Town

God's Funeral

My Spirit Will Not Haunt The Mound

In The Moonlight 

The Man He Killed

An August Midnight

The Dead Man Walking

Lines On The Loss Of The Titanic

Rome: The Vatican - Sala Delle Muse

Middle-Age Enthusiasms

Unknowing

In Vision I Roamed

I Have Lived With Shades

Memory And I 

A Man (In Memory of H. of M.)

Mute Opinion

On An Invitation To The United States

The Tenant-For-Life

Afterwards

During Wind And Rain

The Seasons of Her Year

Heredity

He Never Expected Much

I Said To Love

I Look Into My Glass

The Subalterns

She At His Funeral

The Church-Builder

Men Who March Away

She, To Him

To An Unborn Pauper Child

The To-Be-Forgotten

In A Museum

A Confession To A Friend In Trouble

Shelley's Skylark (The neighbourhood of Leghorn: March)

A Meeting With Despair

As evening shaped I found me on a moor

Which sight could scarce sustain:

The black lean land, of featureless contour,

Was like a tract in pain.

This scene, like my own life, I said, "is one

Where many glooms abide;

Toned by its fortune to a deadly dun

Lightless on every side.

I glanced aloft and halted, pleasure-caught

To see